It's only hit and miss as far as the PCB being flashed to. My GeCube has no software (or bios) voltage control so regardless of what I set it is up the the voltage regulators on the board to set the stock voltage of 1.33v. This leaves hardmodding the board as the only control option.

If the PCB has the correct 2D and 3D power circuitry implemented then the bios set voltages should be as close to correct as the hardware allows (variations as per on all hardware is what I mean).

Mmmh, I don't think I will support older cards than 2xx0 series. I promise to look after it, so maybe... But my policy is to carry on after the death of BIOS modding for ATI cards with RaBiT. RaBiT should support you video card.

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Just some thoughts:

1./ Make sure RBE doesnt *CRASH* when you load an incompatible BIOS... but reports "this is an xzy BIOS, RBE is not compatible" and refuse to load.
2./ Have a drop down box allowing older cards... with then a help statement like "RBE cannot edit this BIOS... try using xyz with a link to xyz"
3./ GPU-Z *is* compatible with older cards ;-)
I agree, RaBiT is probably fine for all older cards. Does it do the X1xxx series? But a link to the TPU download section for RaBiT would be nice. Remember us old-timers know about RaBit, but the community is full of new people and they would appreciate the link, or HELP file.

1./ Make sure RBE doesnt *CRASH* when you load an incompatible BIOS... but reports "this is an xzy BIOS, RBE is not compatible" and refuse to load.
2./ Have a drop down box allowing older cards... with then a help statement like "RBE cannot edit this BIOS... try using xyz with a link to xyz"
3./ GPU-Z *is* compatible with older cards ;-)
I agree, RaBiT is probably fine for all older cards. Does it do the X1xxx series? But a link to the TPU download section for RaBiT would be nice. Remember us old-timers know about RaBit, but the community is full of new people and they would appreciate the link, or HELP file.

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ad 1.) Of course there will be a handling for that.
ad 2.) I don't think that's useful. But as I said: I'm checking on some things and if that will come out positively, there will be some changes... Don't want to say any more about this right now!
ad 3.) Who said it doesn't? But that's not really comparable. However, I posted a link to RaBiT and to NiBiTor in this thread's first post. Can't do more than that to help with research. And no one who is unable or too lazy to use google should tinker with BIOS flashing anyway.

Please don't get this wrong: I'm really greatful for any hints and thoughts you or anyone might have. Thanks to all!

I am using your great RBE since the 0.95 version and I have just discovered today that 1.07 version allows now to edit fan speed thresholds ! Very nice improvement ...

I have noticed, when monitoring my card (2900Pro 512bits), that the temperature thresholds are not the same to increase or decrease the fan rotation speed.

For instance, by default, the fan speed goes up from 25% to 31% whenever the temperature become more than 50°C but decrease from 31% to 25% when temperature fall down below 45°C (not 50°C). This is obviously to avoid the fan to change too often its speed.

In RBE 1.07 (which I did not test yet) you seems to allow to edit the temperature threshold for the fan speed to increase, but do you have the project to allow editing the decreasing fan speed thresholds ? Or perhaps the gap between those thresholds is fixed (5°C in our example).

I am using your great RBE since the 0.95 version and I have just discovered today that 1.07 version allows now to edit fan speed thresholds ! Very nice improvement ...

I have noticed, when monitoring my card (2900Pro 512bits), that the temperature thresholds are not the same to increase or decrease the fan rotation speed.

For instance, by default, the fan speed goes up from 25% to 31% whenever the temperature become more than 50°C but decrease from 31% to 25% when temperature fall down below 45°C (not 50°C). This is obviously to avoid the fan to change too often its speed.

In RBE 1.07 (which I did not test yet) you seems to allow to edit the temperature threshold for the fan speed to increase, but do you have the project to allow editing the decreasing fan speed thresholds ? Or perhaps the gap between those thresholds is fixed (5°C in our example).

Thanks a lot !

Aoz.

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Hi!

Thanks for the cheers!
Yes, this feature is called 'Hysteresis'. It's easy to implement this, but I didn't think that anyone would be eager for this. I'll remember you for the next release.

What was the matter? Can you explain a little more?
You should try v1.08. I's completely rewritten!

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Well not going try it with 1.07 again. BUT i'll try it with 1.08 for sure in fact after this post lol.

The problem was in 3D that there was many mixed up colours on screen. IF 1.08 does it to i'll see if i can take a screenshot of it.

Screenshot not possible and 1.08 does the same thing. All though 1 game started then every thing went corrupt after about 5 seconds then monitor turns off. Guessing the GPU is crashing for some reason.

just tested 1.08 of rbe with my 3870 using latest sapphire bios from this site and it seems to be working well.

Is this the right place for a feature request ?
Is it possible to change in the bios the pal/ntsc mode of the card like on previous ati cards. The 3870 is the first ati card ive had that for whatever reason doesnt have the jumper switches for setting pal mode. Id like to be able to do this as its the only way I can get pal modes such as 720x576 to show up in the display options. handy for emus where i want exact pal screen mode

just tested 1.08 of rbe with my 3870 using latest sapphire bios from this site and it seems to be working well.

Is this the right place for a feature request ?
Is it possible to change in the bios the pal/ntsc mode of the card like on previous ati cards. The 3870 is the first ati card ive had that for whatever reason doesnt have the jumper switches for setting pal mode. Id like to be able to do this as its the only way I can get pal modes such as 720x576 to show up in the display options. handy for emus where i want exact pal screen mode